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[–] ali@lemmy.ca 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What thefuck does that mean?

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's a pun on PC LOAD LETTER, which is an old error message roughly meaning "load letter paper into the paper cartridge". The other person thought you replied to the other² person.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

cat is the program that reads the contents of specific file

litter is the file

> means forward the output of the program to the file

/dev/lp0 is Line Printer 0 so just printer

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] don@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[–] uis@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

cat litter > /dev/lp0

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Printer-cat, Printer-cat,

Does whatever a printer can

Prints your paper, any size,

Out of ink, what a surprise

Look Out!

Here sits the printer cat.

[–] dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It it me or I just read it in tune of Particle men. Or is it a parody of particle men.

[–] stankmut@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's to the tune of the 1967 Spider-Man TV show theme. I imagine the particle man song also references it.

[–] phorbi@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I thought it was paw patrol

[–] funbreaker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"But... It's warm! Warm things are meant for sitting on!"

[–] thrawn21@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know right? My first thought was put a heating pad on the windowsill, and the cat will be much more likely to choose that spot.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I permanently lured my friend's cat from sitting on her (warm) laptop power brick by getting the cat a heated cat bed.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] uis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] bmsok@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

What are they feeding you?

[–] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cats prefer higher temperatures than humans. Give them any other warm thing to sit on and they will sit there instead.

[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why not get the cat a heated blanket instead?

[–] thewitchslayer@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago

If you buy something for a cat, they won't use it.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, but there's another cat who is approved to be on the printer?? What's their story?

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I that that's him in the window

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's him in the spot. light.

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Losing his religion?

[–] ghashul 16 points 2 years ago

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[–] Johanno@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Cats apparently freak out on tinfoil when they land. It’s a great way to train them off your counter tops.

Though do provide them alternative places to be and paths to where they like to go- cats like to be up where they can see everything, so cat shelves to a cat cave etc or a stool near where you’re working, will encourage them off counters, or desks. Especially with the tinfoil scaring them every time the try and make the jump.

[–] PowerGloveSoBad@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

This recommendation gets passed around a lot online, but usually doesn't include the reason why it works so well. From a scientific standpoint, it's because cats movement works off of 5G, which is reflected by heavy gauge tinfoil when the shiny side is facing out. It's not surprising that sites mostly controlled by the government don't want that information distributed.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Unless you’re my cat who doesn’t give a hoot about foil

[–] gjoel@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Who would have thought that a box of all things would be a useful cat repellant.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

using a box as a cat deterrent seems like a fools errand

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

What even is the downside here? Copycats? When has more kitties ever been a problem?

[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Hobart_the_GoKart@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Kitty! It's the kitster. The copy cat making COPiessss..

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[–] uis@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get top 3 active again. Nice.

You just couldn't resist looking back at that explosion, eh? All that cool, ruined. Ruined!